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. 2015 Feb 17;5:8501. doi: 10.1038/srep08501

Table 2. Anisotropy in thermal conductivity for selected materials with layered, wurtzite, and orthorhombic crystal structure at a temperature of 300 K. ‘exp' and ‘pred' in the first column denote experimental measurements and simulation predictions.

Material kmax (W/m-K) kmin (W/m-K) r
Graphite (exp33) (1000–2000) 6 ~300
h-BN (exp33) (200–300) 2 ~100
Black Phosphorene 110 36 3.1
SnSe (exp34) 0.70 0.46 1.52
GaN (pred14) 401 385 1.04
AlN (pred14) 322 303 1.06
NdFeO3 (pred35) 3.01 2.68 1.12
NdAlO3 (pred35) 6.61 5.72 1.16